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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Where does Jayjones say black men cannot be caught?
(a) Anywhere outside of their front door.
(b) In white neighborhoods.
(c) In white nightclubs.
(d) In expensive cars.

2. What does D learn that the court system has done?
(a) Approved D's real mother to take her.
(b) Approved Flo's adoption request.
(c) Revoked Flo's rights to be a foster mother.
(d) Decided to send D to her real father in another State.

3. What happens to the narrator and Neeka in May?
(a) They are arrested for loitering.
(b) They graduate from high school.
(c) They both turn 16.
(d) They both turn 12.

4. Why is Neeka resentful on the trip?
(a) She was supposed to go to the movies with a boy that day.
(b) She was supposed to go to a birthday party that day.
(c) She does not feel well.
(d) She has to watch her two younger brothers.

5. What does the narrator compare herself to regarding her height?
(a) She is taller than her mother or father.
(b) She is as tall as her older brother.
(c) She is as tall as Wilt Chamberlain.
(d) She is taller than D or Neeka.

6. What does Neeka think she cannot find in her family?
(a) Serenity.
(b) A man who will tolerate them.
(c) Her Big Purpose.
(d) Popularity.

7. Why is the narrator hesitant about D's request?
(a) She is supposed to babysit.
(b) She knows her mother does not like D and would not invite her to dinner.
(c) She doesn't have the subway fare.
(d) She is not allowed to do what D asks.

8. How is Sly whenever Tash meets him?
(a) Gushy.
(b) Acts like a Queen.
(c) Cold and aloof.
(d) Alone and seemingly friendless.

9. Who is Tash?
(a) A black minister who is too white.
(b) Emmett's older brother who is in jail.
(c) A black man shot for no reason in a white neighborhood.
(d) Emmett's father.

10. What does the narrator say is the effect of Tash's music?
(a) It enlivened everyone.
(b) It made ladies cry.
(c) She does not mention Tash's music.
(d) The lyrics bothered a lot of people.

11. Who does Tash say he will repay?
(a) Tupac.
(b) The judge who sent him there.
(c) His brother.
(d) Miss Irene.

12. Of what is Tash convinced about Sly?
(a) That he is a racist.
(b) That he is gay.
(c) That he is corrupt.
(d) That he is wealthy.

13. What quality does Neeka want to have?
(a) She does not say.
(b) Sex appeal.
(c) Integrity.
(d) Wisdom.

14. Why is Tash imprisoned?
(a) As an accomplice to assault and robbery.
(b) As an accomplish to murder.
(c) For illegal drugs.
(d) For assault on a police officer.

15. What does D ask the narrator and Neeka one Friday night?
(a) If D can come over for dinner.
(b) Why Neeka's mother looks down on her.
(c) If they would like to roam with her.
(d) If Tash was home yet.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is behind the picture from the narrator's mother?

2. When does Tash expect to be out?

3. Why is Tash moved?

4. What do Sly and the other man do at Randall's?

5. What does Jayjones say happens to black men in the wrong places?

(see the answer keys)

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